The arrests primarily took place in Dallas, Irving, Arlington, Fort Worth, Garland and Collin County. Federal agents detained 84 people of “varying degrees of criminality,” according to Dexter Henson, the ICE spokesperson.
News of the protest spread across social media over the weekend, inviting people to "show up & speak up for those who can't."
A Texas school district launched an investigation into a comment allegedly made by a substitute teacher, which called for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to visit North Side High School in Fort Worth.
ICE agents arrested nearly 90 illegal immigrants in North Texas on Sunday. And there are signs this is just the beginning.
Two-thirds of Fort Worth public school students are Hispanic and more than one in three students is learning English as a second language.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 84 people across North Texas on Sunday during immigration enforcement operations, the agency confirmed.According to a spokesperson for ICE's Dallas Field Office,
I have many students who don’t even speak English and they are in 10th-11th grade,’ a Fort Worth-based teacher tweeted
Immigration operations were taking place all over the country less than a week after President Trump was sworn in.
Fort Worth ISD is looking into a teacher's social media post urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to go to North Side High School to remove students believed to be in the U.S. illegally.
A North Texas substitute teacher allegedly posted anti-immigrant sentiment requesting that ICE show up at a Fort Worth ISD high school.